k. A college is an institution for the education of young men. 1. A republic is a government by the people. m. Government is an institution created by the people for the protection of their lives and liberties. n. A bachelor is an unmarried man. 0. A gentleman is a man who has no visible means of support. p. Spiritual is that which is not material. 13. Wherein, if at all, are the following classifications faulty? a. Students may be divided naturally into three groups, -the athletic, the idle, and the industrious. b. The chief poetic forms are the epic, the narrative poem, the lyric, the elegy, the ode, and the sonnet. C. Education: primary, secondary, collegiate, technical, scientific, and professional. 14. Comment upon the reasoning in the following: a. He who is content with what he has is truly rich. No envious man is content with what he has. No envious man, therefore, is truly rich. b. If this candidate used money to secure his election, he deserved defeat. C. But he did not use money for this purpose. Therefore he did not deserve defeat. Whatever abridges liberty abridges happiness. Therefore law abridges happiness. d. No sensible man is indifferent to money. This man is not indifferent to money. Therefore he is a sensible man. e. "He has no appreciation of beauty, for he has no f. taste for pictures." "War is a blessing, not an evil. Show me the nation that has ever become great without blood-letting." g. "No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except that each person, as far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. . . . Each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of persons." h. ... "Whatever benefits industry, benefits the country; and this measure, if it becomes law, will cause factories to spring up where now there is nothing but waste and desolation." i. "I am sure he must have known of the plan; for only members of the committee knew of it, and he was a member of the committee." j. "There should be no restriction of debate in Congress, because freedom of speech is one of our most sacred rights." 15. Analyze Stevenson's descriptive method in his picture of the Sea Fogs, with regard to, a. The selection and grouping of details. b. The means employed to indicate the point of view. C. The use of movement. d. The means used to secure vividness. 16. Analyze Hawthorne's The Ambitious Guest from the point of view of, a. Unity. b. Plot. 17. Determine roughly the relative proportions of description and narration in Irving's Rip Van Winkle. INDEX Accuracy in the choice of words, 47 Clearness, in the choice of Connotation, 187 Dana, R. H., 99, 220 Development of the paragraph Dialogue, 253-254 Dickens, Charles, 214 Ease, 186 Elements of narration, 234 |